Explosion in junk shop in Muzaffarnagar, 4 dead

Lucknow : Four persons were killed and three injured in an explosion on Monday in a junk shop in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said.

Eyewitness accounts suggest that the owner of the junk shop was hammering a pointed object when the explosion occurred.

Muzaffaranagar Senior Superintendent of Police Anant Dev said the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) and the Army would soon join the probe.